‘I slept next to the camera and it continued taking pictures until dawn. It wasn’t until the next afternoon that I reviewed my images and noticed something unusually bright and green. I showed it to Anand, and we realized that I had captured an extremely rare event.

‘After checking with a few experts, I learned that it was a green meteorite, and getting it on camera is very rare.’

Adding: ‘This is an example of being at the right place at the right time to capture something totally unexpected.

‘For those 15 seconds, I was the luckiest photographer on the planet.’